My youngest dd has started her periods

[Fazackerley]

She's the youngest of four (three girls and a boy). I feel like crying! We've had a little cuddle and she's all sorted, she's very calm and organised (as usual).

I'm sitting in the downstairs loo on the verge of tears. No more little ones! I've had 20 years of having a little child in the house but this has brought it home to me how fleeting it all is. It doesn't help that I'm menopausal and on hrt!

Dh would think I was mad and normally I'm the first person to say get a grip! Has anyone else felt a bit..bereft?

Blimey - it's not about you.
I'll happily be the first to say get a grip.

Oh! I wasn't expecting that!
I'm sure I'm not the only mum to feel emotional about their kids growing up!

Still, it's made me laugh. Good old mumsnet.

Yanbu! I feel the same about my dd growing up. Starting periods is a time when it hits home that they’re not your babies anymore- especially as she’s now able to have her own (god forbid! 😊)

zebra, did you mean to be so mean?

You're not the only one to feel emotional. We as mothers watch our babies and children and count their developmental firsts, first words, first teeth first day at school, but for some reason this first isn't marked. It isn't about us. It isn't important. Yes it bloody is. It is a big step and a big change for your dd and as a mum you can do little to help except offer a hot water bottle and some chocolate.

I was were you are 6 months ago and I still find it hard to believe that my last baby is now a woman.

If it helped I got tears over a 3 yr old (youngest of 5) just looking big. I’m not on hrt or menopausal and have no excuse

Omg thank you. I was beginning to think I was actually mad rather than just feeling a bit mad

Fucking ell zebra. Yikes.

YANBU @Fazackerley

. Perfectly natural to feel that way.

Mine are grown up and left home. It seems like only yesterday they were little.

I spent years mourning not breastfeeding any longer as I missed it so much.

When my son, my first child was born my mother said to me, "Make the most of them being babies and children as the time will fly by". He will be 24 this year!

She was right.

I’m the youngest of 3 girls and I remember when I first started my periods 40 years ago my big sister brought me an eye shadow to celebrate

Similar feeling last month when I tried to hold DS2's hand to cross the road. He pointed out that he is a policeman in London and was carrying his own baby DS at the time....

Do you buy normal pads for them or are there smaller one's?

I cried when my nearly 16 year old announced he had a girlfriend. I'm happy to be handed a grip but I might decide to shove it where the sun doesn't shine on the bestower ...

@Hippywannabe that is hilarious!!

hippy 😂😂😂

@lateeaster - my DD likes the Lil-lets teen ones. Currently on offer in Boots

You're not unreasonable, I'm sure I will be the same when DD starts, I feel it's imminent. Hope that your DD is taking all this in her stride

My only daughter is leaving home in September. I have a feeling I’m going to be crying lots between now and then - when she gets her results, at her prom, when she leaves. I’m wondering if I can get away with wearing big sunglasses the whole time